The most common
question asked by people searching for
information on baseball memorabilia.
"How much is my autographed baseball?"
Along with other signed items there are
too many factors involved to simply
answer this question with a price.....Read
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Baseball gloves and mitts can
be dated by the manufacturer, model
number, and the style of the web. Web
styles may have continued to be made
years after they were introduced
but in general the web can be dated to a
specific era. This guide will help you
identify the era.

Official National League & American
League Baseball Dating Guide. Spalding
manufactured National League Baseballs,
and Reach manufactured American League
Baseballs, for about 100 years until
Rawlings took over in 1977. Rawlings has
been been making major league baseballs
ever since. Rawlings first started to
make World Series baseballs in 1978 that
features The World Series logo.

This guide is
designed to help you identify undated
Yankee ticket stubs but the method can
be used to help identify ticket stubs
for other teams. Using ticket & tax
prices, the name of the printing
company, team logo, game number, team
presidents, series letter ticket color,
and ticket design these tickets can be
narrowed down to a specific year.

How Lemon Peel Orange Peel Base
Balls were made August 2017 Newsletter
- By Steven KeyMan

Back in the day when you might have taken a
horse and buggy to the ball field, chances are
you bought your base ball at a local Shoe Maker.
That's if you didn't make your own. Baseballs
were not manufactured in great quantities. Most
games were played with balls made by the players
themselves. Called the Lemon Peel

baseball today,
expert ball
makers back in
the day
suggested it was
like quartering
of an orange........Read
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Hank
Greenberg concocted a mitt that looked as big as
a catchers mitt with a fishing net attached. In
1939 Greenberg's oversized mitt was the source
of worry, and protest that leads to the
development of the Trapper Model. A local sports
writer wrote "This mitt is a triumph of

modern science. It
Contains; Three lengths of barbed wire, 4
corners, and 2 side pockets as on a pool table,
a fishnet, a compact anti-aircraft gun to bring
down high throws, and a pocket comb, for Hank is
a dapper fellow......Read
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Authenticated Autograph Samples
to help you self authenticate or
identify an unknown signature. This guide will help you
make an educated decision before you make a purchase.
Autographs will be added to this growing data base, on a
regular basis.